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Review of Szymanowski Harnasie; Mandragora

Szymanowski Harnasie; Mandragora

The Naxos Szymanowski series continues its estimable task of placing relatively familiar major works in appropriate but less familiar contexts....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009

Review of Heggie Passing By

Heggie Passing By

Jake Heggie is the kind of composer that musical theatre – and I make no distinction between musicals and opera...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2010

Review of Celibidache and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Celibidache and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Regular readers of Gramophone may be surprised to encounter ‘official’ CDs featuring a conductor who compared making records...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Review of Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4, etc

Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4, etc

This recording complements Cherkassky’s 1994 studio performance of Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto (made when he was 85) with a selection...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996

Review of Schumann & Liszt Piano Works

Schumann & Liszt Piano Works

Here are two performances that I think are of unequal quality. Rubinstein obviously felt at home when recording with Wallenstein,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988

Review of Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2; Vocalise

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2; Vocalise

Ludwig Minkus may have been no Delibes or Tchaikovsky, but he does not deserve the disparaging comments that have often...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995

Review of Patterson Concertos

Patterson Concertos

Paul Patterson, longtime professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, is here celebrated in recordings of three major...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011

Review of Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Despite a certain in-built incongruity, harpsichords (even modern instruments, by the sound of them) partnered in Bach by an orchestra...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1998

Review of Wagner Choral & Orchestral Works

Wagner Choral & Orchestral Works

The focus here is on the ceremonial music of Wagner’s years in Dresden, that highly unstable time in the 1840s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997

Review of Great Singers of our Century - Irmgard Seefried

Great Singers of our Century - Irmgard Seefried

The occasion captured on this live 1969 recording from the Mozarteum in Salzburg was planned specifically for young people who...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000


 

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